Method of lasting shoes.



No. 777,197. PATENTED DEC. 13, 1904:. W. F. FOWLER & E. A. KING.

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Patented December 13, 190%.

NITED STATES PATENT Orricn.

WILLIAM F. FOXVLER AND EDWARD A. KlNGr, OF CINCINNATI, OHIO, ASSIGNORS OF ONE-THIRD TO CHARLES H. .KRIPPENDORF, OF

CINCINNATI, OHIO.

METHOD OF LASTING entree.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 777,197, dated December 13, 1904. Application filed January 18, 1904. Serial No. 189,460. (No model.

To (LZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that we, WILLIAM F. FOWLER and EDWARD A. KING, citizens of the United States, residing at Cincinnati, in the county of Hamilton and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Methods of Lasting Shoes, of which the following is a specification.

Our invention relates to an inprovement in shoes and in the method of their construction, especially to those in which the Vamps or tips are cut out of patent-leather or Russia calf or any other kind of firm leather. The vamps are generally enforced by a lining and a middle lining, usually of twill or drill. Great difficulty has heretofore been experienced in the lasting of the toe portion of shoes made from such leather. In lasting the toe portion of the shoe the leather, lining, middle lining, and the piece which forms the box have to be drawn, stretched, and gathered around the toe. As the linings and the piece which forms the box are always of different elasticity than the vamp or tip, it is necessary that the different parts he held compactly together, as there is apt to be creeping or puckering of the parts, causing the vamp or tip to wrinkle or crack in the lasting operation. In pulling the upper over the toe part of the last a very large percentage, especially of such Vamps or tips which are cut out of patent-leather, will crack and either have to be ripped off and revamped, retipped, and relasted or patched up, and thus involve great expense and making an imperfeet shoe.

The object of our invention is to overcome these difliculties.

By our method we obtain smooth uniform lasting of the toe and avoid the trouble, the imperfections, and expense above mentioned, thereby making a great saving in the cost, as well as materially adding to the appearance of the shoe.

The features of our invention are more fully set forth in the description of the accompan ing drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which- Figure l is a top plan view of the front portion of the vamp and tip finished for lasting.

Fig. 2 is a section on line a: a', Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a side elevation of the front portion of vamp and tip after the lasting operation. Fig. 4. is an enlarged section on line 20 on, Fig. 3, in which the welt is shown as attached to one side.

The following is the method which we apply in lasting the shoe:

A represents the vamp or upper of the shoe.

B represents the tip.

C represents the middle lining, and D the part which forms the box, which is usually made of split leather or canvas.

The vamp, the tip, and the middle and the regular lining are fitted together in the usual manner. In the present method the tip, the vamp, the middle lining, and the piece which forms the box are loose at the toe end. Our method differs. WVe pass a line of stitches (1. around the toe end through the tip, vamp, middle lining, and the piece which forms the box, so as to iirmly hold these parts together and prevent the stretching of one more than the other in the operation of the lasting This line of stitches a is outside or below the scam I), by means of which after the upper is lasted the welt (Z or sole is sewed to the upper.

a represents the line of stitches connecting the various parts (tip, vamp, middle lining,

and the piece which forms the box) together, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2. 6 represents the seam bywhich the welt d or sole is attached to the upper. After these parts have been fitted and lasted as herein described the shoe is finished in the ordinary manner. By this method of firmly securing the various parts together at the end of the toe they are drawn uniformly without danger of wrinkling, puckering, or cracking, occasioned by the common method of manufacture.

WVe have shown the construction of shoe with the tip applied to the toe portion of the vamp, as this form is the most difficult to last; but the advantages herein described are obtained also when the tip is omitted and the toe portion of the vamp, middle lining, and box-piece are employed and firmly secured to gether by the marginal line of stitches a.

E represents the insole, c the nails for tacking the upper to the last, and h the wire for curing the insole to the upper by fastening holding the toe portion to the last until the means inside of the said marginal line of upper has been secured to the insole in the stitches, substantially as described. usual manner. In testimony whereof we have hereunto set 5 Having described our invention, We claim our hands. The method of lasting a shoe, which con- WILLIAM F. FOWLER. sists in connecting togetherthevamp, co-parts 1 V EDWVARD A. KING.

forming the upper by a marginal line of Witnesses: stitches, then drawing the same over the last OLIVER B. KAISER, Q and tacking the parts to the insole, then se- LUISE BECK.- 

